Reviews

Touch Typing with FunTyper

The course content was good and effective in that my 12 year old daughter learnt to type within the week. There were teething problems with quality at start but once fed-back to management, they mobilised and were completely responsive in bringing about what was needed to achieve the desired turn

The course content was good and effective in that my 12 year old daughter learnt to type within the week.

There were teething problems with quality at start but once fed-back to management, they mobilised and were completely responsive in bringing about what was needed to achieve the desired turnaround and good outcome for our daughter.

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A Great Summer Job

My experience of working with Funtech started 7 weeks ago and I can tell that it was amazing. From the first moment till that last one, the managers and colleagues were amazing people who would help you to solve any problem that would appear. The courses that I've taught were interesting structured

My experience of working with Funtech started 7 weeks ago and I can tell that it was amazing. From the first moment till that last one, the managers and colleagues were amazing people who would help you to solve any problem that would appear.
The courses that I've taught were interesting structured and the children usually found them challenging and fun.
Overall, I had a great experience working for Funtech and I can say that it is a 5 star experience for both tutors and children. :)

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Fun Tech

Great course - my son was happy attending and learning to Touch Type. This happened much more quickly with an intensive week than weekly sessions. I would recommend.

Staggeringly engaged!

I was so touched to be given a scholarship to a week at Funtech for my son. I have never seen my child so engaged or happy to go somewhere from 9am-5pm. It was a revelation. If only school could be 50% as engaging! I highly recommend the courses to anyone interested. Thank you Funtech beyond words

I was so touched to be given a scholarship to a week at Funtech for my son. I have never seen my child so engaged or happy to go somewhere from 9am-5pm. It was a revelation. If only school could be 50% as engaging! I highly recommend the courses to anyone interested.
Thank you Funtech beyond words.

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GCSE IT

Funtech noticed my son's strengths as soon as they met him a few years ago and on hearing this from such cool people, it boosted my son's confidence more than you can imagine! My son is dyslexic and has a slow processing speed, and with the excellent support from all the teachers and staff at Funtec

Funtech noticed my son's strengths as soon as they met him a few years ago and on hearing this from such cool people, it boosted my son's confidence more than you can imagine! My son is dyslexic and has a slow processing speed, and with the excellent support from all the teachers and staff at Funtech he completed his GCSE IT 2 years early and was thrilled to get an A. I am very proud of him and also grateful to Funtech for spotting him all those years ago and giving me the confidence to let him fly with his GCSEs. He learnt a lot about how to study too, his way, which he can now take through to his other courses. The staff are engaging, fun, knowledgable and most importantly - cool!

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Tonbridge Residential Minecraft Redstone

To be able to attend this camp was Luca's dream come true! He thoroughly enjoyed all of the activities each day which were fun filled exciting and challenging in the right way. Your lovely staff were kind informative and helpful and a special thank you should go to Sean Toby and Nick for making sure

To be able to attend this camp was Luca's dream come true! He thoroughly enjoyed all of the activities each day which were fun filled exciting and challenging in the right way. Your lovely staff were kind informative and helpful and a special thank you should go to Sean Toby and Nick for making sure he was looked after and coached very well. Designing the Logic Gates was the perfect icing on the cake for Luca!! And apparantly the food was delicious too...!
Thank you so much once again :)

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Java Coder - Northwood

Booked my son for the Java Coder program last week and he had a blast, Joseph (the instructor) was really good and took time to ensure my son understood the concept of programming and also have fun learning how to code in Java. My son is now excited about programming and is practicing his Java skill

Booked my son for the Java Coder program last week and he had a blast, Joseph (the instructor) was really good and took time to ensure my son understood the concept of programming and also have fun learning how to code in Java. My son is now excited about programming and is practicing his Java skills at home.

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Minecraft Redstone

I was totally impressed by my daughters knowledge gain who took this course. She knows all her truth tables AND NOT OR NOR NAND XOR XNOR, even i had forgotten them, and shes only 10 years old!! She came home and built minecraft logic controlled gates as well. She is very proud of it, and wants to b

I was totally impressed by my daughters knowledge gain who took this course. She knows all her truth tables AND NOT OR NOR NAND XOR XNOR, even i had forgotten them, and shes only 10 years old!!
She came home and built minecraft logic controlled gates as well. She is very proud of it, and wants to be the first there and the last to leave! Nick at Northwood branch has done a tremendous jobs in teaching the kids the gates and controls and logical statements. He is a fabtastic teacher and I wish him the best and i hope he is here again next year when she wants to do Java and Minecraft MODS.

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Excellent Mentoring, teaching & development

My son Shivam has been at Funtech for few years now. I am so pleased with the teaching, mentoring and support he's received in all the years here. Each of the teachers' he's had including the head, has taken so much interest in his development as a student and as a person. He received individual a

My son Shivam has been at Funtech for few years now. I am so pleased with the teaching, mentoring and support he's received in all the years here.
Each of the teachers' he's had including the head, has taken so much interest in his development as a student and as a person.
He received individual attention whenenver he's needed it.
I would recommend the school to everyone who's kids are interested in computers. It's an excellent school and every person who works here takes full interest in your kid's overall development.

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3D games

My son absolutely loved the course and wants to go back for more term time courses. He loved his teacher Theo in Richmond campus who is always patient to provide a helping hand. Never before I had these kind of review from him for a summer camp.

Java Coding - Fantastic teachers and a very happy son

My son who if a fanatical coder took the Java course in July and came away wanting more. The teachers took in their stride his various learning difficulties and social barriers, allowing him to excel at something he loves, make friends and ending the course bursting with self-confidence and a huge

My son who if a fanatical coder took the Java course in July and came away wanting more. The teachers took in their stride his various learning difficulties and social barriers, allowing him to excel at something he loves, make friends and ending the course bursting with self-confidence and a huge sense of achievement All hail the teachers, King Dave and Prince Edward (!), and anyone lucky enough to be taught by them -- I cannot recommend them and the course enough.

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minecraft redstone

what an amazing week my son has had! he has learnt so much about minecraft even though he thought he knew a lot before! teachers were great and he is really happy. hope to come back again next year.

minecraft redstone

what an amazing week my son has had! he has learnt so much about minecraft even though he thought he knew a lot before! teachers were great and he is really happy. hope to come back again next year.

Review from a parent

Funtech has been nothing short of transformational and life changing for my son. Through Funtech he got two A stars at A level in Computer Science and Mathematics and is now off to study Computing and Maths at Bristol University. What was particularly remarkable is Funtech discovered his aptitude fo

Funtech has been nothing short of transformational and life changing for my son. Through Funtech he got two A stars at A level in Computer Science and Mathematics and is now off to study Computing and Maths at Bristol University. What was particularly remarkable is Funtech discovered his aptitude for Maths. Originally he was just doing Computer Science and they encouraged him to start Maths, a subject his school never suggested for A level. Funtech do more than teach very well. They are genuinely passionate about their students and do everything humanly possible to inspire, interest and motivate their students. I cannot recommend them highly enough.

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Great Week!

Our son, William, spent a wonderful week at FunTech. There was not a bad moment throughout the entire time. He was actively engaged from start to finish. He was appropriately challenged, as well. His teachers were patient and always age appropriate. William had a fantastic time at your wond

Our son, William, spent a wonderful week at FunTech. There was not a bad moment throughout the entire time. He was actively engaged from start to finish. He was appropriately challenged, as well. His teachers were patient and always age appropriate.

William had a fantastic time at your wonderful camp. He met some fun friends and learned some awesome skills. You do a great job teaching your information to a difficult age group and I applaud you!

I look forward to enrolling him in more classes during the school term.

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Highly Recommended

My son Mark has thoroughly enjoyed going to Funtech. He has achieved A Level Computing 2 years early. The staff's dynamic approach to teaching motivates pupils to achieve their full potential. I can highly recommend this organisation to others.

Wow, my son achieved an ‘A’ level in Computing, A grade, before his GCSEs

Wow, my son Mike, aka Pip for reasons of his FunTech related success, studied ‘A’ level computing at the age of 13 & completed with an A grade at the age of 15! FunTech have inspired him toward what I know, as an IT professional myself, to be the best career in the world. FunTech repeatedly go

Wow, my son Mike, aka Pip for reasons of his FunTech related success, studied ‘A’ level computing at the age of 13 & completed with an A grade at the age of 15!

FunTech have inspired him toward what I know, as an IT professional myself, to be the best career in the world.

FunTech repeatedly go the extra mile. When it came to work experience time, FunTech even provided the connection which resulted in Mike attaining a placement at Microsoft.

But how did we get here?

When Mike was in year 8, age 12½ his mum saw a FunTech advert, essentially to teach children to have fun learning how to write computer games. I know myself how fun that can be, so we asked him & took our enthusiastic young man along for an assessment.

From the outset I was quite impressed that they were assessing the children, rather than just taking the money regardless of suitability.

After the assessment they wanted to talk to us, his parents & recommended he didn’t do the write a computer game course, as they felt he was too advanced for it, but recommended another course, more suitable for his abilities.

They saw potential in him that the 11+ had not.

I looked at the skill-set which they were recommending he learned & realised that I wished more of the CV’s I was seeing for people wishing to work for me professionally had those skills & when they did they were the ones I tended to call for interview.

I love programming & the opportunity to give my son that pleasure, especially given his enthusiasm for the idea was something I wasn’t going to miss.

He did the course, although he was the youngest by far more than a year. He was a great success & one thing led to another & a dilemma presented itself. His great FunTech driven success led him to the opportunity to take an ‘A’ level in Computing, to be completed before his year group had even sat their GCSE's!

FunTech had always been very clear that school work had to come first, but then the technology that FunTech teach really is fun. Indeed, school homework can sometimes be boring, but the stuff FunTech do can be light relief. I do say this as someone who himself loves programming.

My concern was that while Mike, as a result of FunTech’s input, was now academically capable of meeting the ‘A’ level challenge, he was still a youngster & was he mature enough to keep this in balance with the rigours of school-work?

Mike was keen, but I went in to speak to FunTech about my concern. Their response was professional, balanced & wise. In the end I decided that the risk of holding Mike back by not engaging FunTech here, given his enthusiasm, well – he had to be supported in his decision to do it. With hindsight I’m so glad that’s the decision I came to.

It’s interesting, when applying for 6th forms, I raised the question when everyone else was talking about predicted & hoped for GCSE grades & whether their child could achieve a 6th form place, I asked the question as to the impact of Mikes early A grade ‘A’ level in Computing, given that we were being told by RGS for one that the key is GCSE results, GCSE results & GCSE results.

The response was physical, the tutor in question physically stepped forward, shook hands & stated “well that IS very encouraging”.

The world is Mike’s oyster, due to in no small part, the footing & inspiration granted to him by FunTech.

He is currently deciding which 6th form to give his support to.

In his free time Mike has written a tool his dad, that’s me, has used professionally.

Watch this space.

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Disorganised and damaging [FunTech reply @ end]

My son learnt to touch type here to help his dyslexia. It was suggested he continued and did his GCSE computer course. I turned up for lessons which were canceled due to snow ( difficult as we live over 13 miles away) because no one bothered to tell us. But when the exams came it appeared a lot of t

My son learnt to touch type here to help his dyslexia. It was suggested he continued and did his GCSE computer course. I turned up for lessons which were canceled due to snow ( difficult as we live over 13 miles away) because no one bothered to tell us. But when the exams came it appeared a lot of the work had been missed due to mistakes at fun tech this meant attending catch up sessions every evening after school and all weekend, not getting home till after 9pm having not even eaten, night after night. As this coincided with school exams my son could not do any revision for these and was exhausted. It has ruined his school grades and possibly his whole future as these grades count towards his final results. He was also guaranteed time and time again an A. He got B, 3 marks off the A and was told he should be pleased. He would have been if he hadn't been told consistently he would get the A. I was told they would ask for a re-mark, then told a few weeks later they would not. ( why do they say one thing and do another?) then to add insult to injury they sent news of another course,advertising in big letters that only 4 of there pupils had got the B while everyone else has an A. Rub it in why don't you.?
Billing was another issue. The finance side was a complete mess, invoices that nobody could explain coming and going, being told we owe money we didn't, being told we were owed money which never came back.
I work in the service industry. If things go wrong with somebody it seems all of it goes wrong. I'm sure Funtech has many happy students who go onto great success. As for my son Funtech has destroyed his confidence, left him distrusting teachers and severely damaged his future. To make it worse nobody can even be bothered to apologise. Still I don't expect this review to appear, I see that only reviews with excellent ratings are on this site!

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A rather scathing review:

> I can appreciate the disappointment felt at missing a grade 'A' by 3 marks. However, no one, but NO ONE is able to guarantee a grade 'A'. We managed through hard work and dedication at no extra cost to bring him up from an average grade D/E to a high grade B/A. His mother was especially keen on him achieving a Grade A or above and we certainly said there was a possibility of this.

> To put things into perspective we feel he achieved an extremely solid Grade B despite having dyslexia, organisation difficulties and most challenging a short term memory and as such has done fantastically well.

Other comments:
> Cancellation due to snow: notice posted on our website, message left on voice mail & email, neither were picked up
> Scheduled sessions missed due to holidays, so catch-up lessons were scheduled outside of our normal working hours, again at no extra charge.
> Grade numbers are what they are, we can't alter these. I would however, say what an excellent testament to the team at FunTech that the lowest grade achieved this year was a grade B.
> Finances, yes there was a hiccup. The family were not paying the published fees for that year, which did cause confusion in accounts. We believe several apologies were made, if this was not made clear; "we would like to unreservedly apologise for the confusion caused in our accounts" I hope this will resolve the matter. Standing Order continued thus the reason for the refund which has been repaid one month after the end of the course.
> As a gesture of good will, free maths tuition was offered for the winter term - this was declined with a communication that they would never bring their son back to FunTech; the family called back mid spring term wanting these sessions which we were no longer able to facilitate.

We have been working with children for over 17 years, if we were that appalling we would not be in business. However, we have certainly not got everything right over the years - but this is still not one of those situations. Our ethos is strong and honest - we care about the youngsters and their personal and educational development. It’s not all about the grade.

Message for Mrs Orford. We are very saddened that we have caused such hurt. However, I sincerely hope that in time you may come to appreciate the hard work and effort we dedicated to your son in achieving his result and are very sorry that you feel so strongly about this.

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FunTech

We are so glad we discovered FunTech !! Frazer and Flora have achieved great GCSE results in a highly supportive environment. Funtech not only provides excellent teaching and results but the team really care about your child and meeting the individual needs of your child. As a parent I really appre

We are so glad we discovered FunTech !!
Frazer and Flora have achieved great GCSE results in a highly supportive environment. Funtech not only provides excellent teaching and results but the team really care about your child and meeting the individual needs of your child. As a parent I really appreciate the support, guidance and ongoing encouragement my children receive - thank-you Funtech !!

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One very happy parent

I can not begin to express how highly I rate FunTech. My three children have been involved with FunTech since they were 5 years old and with 2 GCSE A stars already in the bag they are now attending a range of classes from Computer Programming to GCSE maths to preparation for Common Entrance.

I can not begin to express how highly I rate FunTech.

My three children have been involved with FunTech since they were 5 years old and with 2 GCSE A stars already in the bag they are now attending a range of classes from Computer Programming to GCSE maths to preparation for Common Entrance.

Not only is the teaching first rate but my children really enjoy the lessons and as a parent I know the team will always goes the "extra mile".

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Great head start

A great opportunity. Our son achieved A* A level in Computing, a year early. It gave him tremendous confidence and study skills to achieve as well in his other subjects, at school. It also looked so good on his cv, that he got offers from every university on his UCAS application. Our daughter achiev

A great opportunity. Our son achieved A* A level in Computing, a year early. It gave him tremendous confidence and study skills to achieve as well in his other subjects, at school. It also looked so good on his cv, that he got offers from every university on his UCAS application. Our daughter achieved A* at GCSE ICT - 2 years early, which gave her fantastic confidence and prepared her really well to for the challenges of her other GCSEs.

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Touch typing made fun

FunTech has inspired my 10 year old son to start learning to touch type, stick with it and become pretty competent at it within a few months. They've been great at pushing, encouraging and rewarding him and making learning a new skill good fun.